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Demand Assessment of Soil Fertilizer Among Smallholder Farmers in Haramaya District, Oromia Regional State 奥罗米亚州哈拉玛亚地区小农土壤肥料需求评估

Developing Country Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.7176/dcs/13-6-02

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The Effectiveness of HIV Media Communication in Fighting HIV among Adolescents and Young Adults at a Training Institute and a Non-Governmental Organization 在一个培训机构和一个非政府组织进行的艾滋病毒媒体传播在青少年和年轻人中防治艾滋病毒方面的效果

Developing Country Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.7176/dcs/13-6-04

{"title":"The Effectiveness of HIV Media Communication in Fighting HIV among Adolescents and Young Adults at a Training Institute and a Non-Governmental Organization","authors":"","doi":"10.7176/dcs/13-6-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/dcs/13-6-04","url":null,"abstract":"The HIV epidemic remains a serious concern to society with its multiplication observed among adolescents and young adults who are transiting to adulthood.Zambia, a part of Sub-Saharan Africa had 48,000 of (15-49years) HIV Infetctions in 2018 with 39% of that adolescents and young adults (15-24 years). The need to reduce the HIV infection rates, especially among adolescents and young adults is a common feature in HIV programming interventions. Particularly, these have been interventions through use of media communication. HIV media communication has been necessary because communication is a process to disseminate or make common or share what has been heard.The study investigated the effectiveness of HIV media communication in fighting the HIV epidemic among adolescents and young adults. A descriptive study design was adopted by use of a sample size of 94 respondents from Solwezi Training Institute and two representatives from the Solwezi Youth Alive Zambia, a non-governmental organisation. A semi-structured questionnaire and an interview guide were used as data collection tools.The findings of this study indicated that 83% of the respondents accessed HIV information through Radio that is inbuilt in a Mobile Cellphone device. Further, 77% of the respondents had engaged into interpersonal communication to talk to their friends about HIV matters.Conclusively, it has become clear that reducing HIV infection rates is partly predicated on the availability and accessibility of adequate information from all forms of media for both adolescents and young adults. Thus,successes to end HIV transmission among adolescents and young adults will depend on continued interventions of HIV media communication to effect Behavioral change and increased knowledge regarding the HIV epidermic Keywords: HIV media communication, Adolescents and young adults, media communication. DOI: 10.7176/DCS/13-6-04 Publication date: October 31 st 2023","PeriodicalId":474306,"journal":{"name":"Developing Country Studies","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136198858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Role of Integrity in Maintaining Peace and Social Welfare in Tanzania 诚信在维持坦桑尼亚和平和社会福利方面的作用

Developing Country Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.7176/dcs/13-6-03

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A Review on Ethiopian Coffee Production Trend: Comparison with Major Coffee Producing Countries of the World 埃塞俄比亚咖啡生产趋势综述:与世界主要咖啡生产国的比较

Developing Country Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.7176/dcs/13-6-01

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